Love is eternal? I guess I’ll have to wait and find out if it’s true. My father waited 21 years after my mother died, questioning Jehovahs Witnesses to get the answer…but I guess it wasn’t until HE passed that he found out the truth. Wish he could tell me.

Not necessarily a certainty. It depends on whether you subscribe to the ever expanding universe theory, the cyclic nature of time theory or the theory that eventually the universe will collapse in on itself and time will end.

Eternity, oblivion, cyclicity, whatever you subscribe to, mortal death is a certainty and death eternal. You can believe in rebirth and reincarnation, but this is not an undoing of death as you still die and do not actually reverse the dying process. If you believe that time flows both backward and forwards, this is also an infinite cycle, and if it is broken, then a new infinity replaces it. Stephen Hawking says that the universe is finite, but even if it is finite, there is infinity beyond this finiteness. Even nothingness is something and exists in some form, or lack thereof. At least, this is what I believe, but then again, half the time I believe I’m a cat, so go figure.

Unless, of course, you subscribe to the theory of solipsism, as more and more quantum physicists are doing, in which nothing exists other than thought – time and eternity, therefore, not existing in their literal sense either. I suppose it really depends on your current chosen philosophical favourite.

Um, I really can’t say I understand Hawking when I’ve only read little quotes from his books here and there. Brian wasn’t giving me much leeway in terms of poetic license so I was just spewing whatever came to mind. I’m glad you liked the poem though. I left a comment at your blog. 🙂